Strawberry Candy Under the Sycamore Tree

Transfer student Lin Wan never thought that an unexpected collision under the sycamore tree at Mingde Middle School in September would stain her youth with the refreshing breath of a white shirt. That day, she squatted on the ground holding the scattered textbooks. She looked up and saw Jiang Yu's smiling almond eyes - he helped her collect the books, brushed the name on her textbook with his fingertips, and said in a voice as cool as iced soda: "My name is Jiang Yu, and I am also in class (3)." From then on, there were many warm fragments in her campus life: the strawberry-flavored lollipops handed to her during class, with his handwritten words "Come on" on the wrappers; the sunlight falling on his white shirt in the studio as a model, becoming the most vivid scenery in her paintings; sitting on the stone bench in physical education class, and the ice soda he handed her. The water droplets on the bottle wet her fingers, but they couldn't match the faint scent of laundry detergent when he came closer. Jiang Yu will remember that she likes to draw and give her new paints on her birthday; when she gets stuck on a math problem, he will patiently write down the steps to solve the problem on a scratch paper, with handwriting as neat as a work of art; he will walk on the side of the road after school and remind her to "be careful of potholes", and his shadow will overlap with hers to form a gentle shape in the sunset.